A critical review of tourism and oil

Becken, Susanne

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2010.10.005

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“…Tourism is a privileged, discretionary and oil intensive activity (Hall, 2004;Becken, 2010). Accurate cross-sector comparison of carbon emissions is challenging, in part due to methods of defining and measuring tourism emissions (Scott, Hall & Gössling, 2012).…”

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Australian climate concern and the ‘attitude–behaviour gap’

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Reis

Cohen

2015

Current Issues in Tourism

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. (2015). Australian climate concern and the 'attitudebehaviour gap'. Current Issues in Tourism, DOI: 10.1080DOI: 10. /13683500.2014.Australian climate concern and the 'attitude-behaviour gap' Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change poses considerable challenges to all societies and economies. One significant contributor to human-induced climate change is tourism transportation, particularly aviation. This paper addresses the relationship between climate change concerns, the energy-intensive nature of tourist consumption, and unrestrained tourist air travel behaviour in the context of Australia. Following Barr, Shaw, Coles and Prillwitz (2010), it seeks to understand public climate concern within the context of routine everyday ('home') lives and occasional tourist ('away') decision-making, with a specific focus on air travel. It draws upon 20 in-depth semistructured interviews conducted in Australia between March and June 2011. The findings highlight the contradictory nature of environmental concerns and consumption decisions in everyday and tourist contexts. This is evident in widespread domestic consumer practices that are motivated, all or in large part, by climate concerns, set against almost complete disregard and neglect of responsibility to modify existing air travel practices. Our results highlight the magnitude of the challenge involved in shifting deeply entrenched air travel behaviours despite the growing urgency of radical emission reductions. It also highlights the need to consider consumer responses to climate change not in isolation, but in relation to industry drivers and strong government policy interventions.

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“…Set against this broad context, the tourism industry in Australia is energy intensive and heavily reliant upon aviation (Becken, 2010). The Garnaut Review (2011) notes that Australia must respond to climate change, and that national interests will be served by committing to strong global efforts to mitigate climate change.…”

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Australian climate concern and the ‘attitude–behaviour gap’

Higham

Reis

Cohen

2015

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…We have been encouraged as tourism researchers to seek to apply new developments in psychology to issues in tourism such as motivation, memory, satisfaction and personal growth (Pearce & Packer, 2013). We have also been urged to break through disciplinary 'straightjackets' to embrace interdisciplinary perspectives which could, for example, provide a more interpretive understanding of the relationship between tourism and oil that goes beyond economics (Becken, 2011).…”

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Tourism and decolonisation: Locating research and self

Chambers

Buzinde

2015

Annals of Tourism Research

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This paper critically explores decolonial theory and its relevance for tourism studies. We suggest that while postcolonial and related critical theoretical perspectives furthered understandings of the consequences of colonisation, such critical theorising has not provided an epistemological perspective of tourism which legitimises the cosmologies of, and actively empowers, traditionally marginalised groupings. We review published tourism research which adopts critical and postcolonial perspectives, and argue that while these have been valuable in terms of exposing the existence and effects of dominant discourses and practices in tourism, their emancipatory objectives are limited because tourism knowledge is still predominantly colonial. Epistemological decolonisation is thus presented as a more radical project which can provide an 'other' way of thinking, being and knowing about tourism.

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“…Anchored within the economics and knowledge literature, the interrelationships between innovation and internationalization are conceptualized and articulated in such a way that the specificities of tourism in a changing global environment can be addressed. In the second issue, Becken (2011) provides a critical meta-analysis to assess current knowledge of tourism and oil; her analysis suggests that activities relevant to tourism and oil are multidimensional and that components of the phenomena are inadequately conceptualized and consequently poorly understood. The third review article relates to technology and intelligent systems in tourism (Gretzel, 2011).…”

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